Worker productivity and quality?

[kelvin]

How do you enhance worker productivity and quality? I know the free market answer.

ISO9000 is a system of record keeping and standardization to ease interntional cooperation between companies.

http://www.realquality.com/isointro.htm

TQM or it's succssor Six Sigma is a tool kit and resources to aid tracking down product defects and incease manufacturing efficiency.

http://w4.pica.army.mil/tqm/primer/concepts.html

These are not theoritical models. They are standard practices that are in place in many companies world wide. I don't have to prove they work. They are working right now.

I don't know of any communist tools to make and improve worker quality. I see a lot of guess work and theory, but no real world application available today. So then how do communist run an assembly line?

[redstar2000]

Starting three threads in nine minutes suggests there's nothing wrong with your productivity, kelvin.

Quality, however, is another matter.

I'm aware (as much as I want to be) that there are currently "fashionable" "systems" that are supposed to increase worker "productivity" and "quality". Sometime in the next year or two or three, there will be a new fashion.

I've no way of knowing your experience, but mine as a "consumer" hasn't changed much over the decades. Whenever I buy something, it's a crapshoot; sometimes it works for a long time, sometimes it works for a little while, sometimes it's plastic-wrapped shit right out of the box. Sometimes repair or replacement is fairly simple, sometimes it's complicated, sometimes it's impossible.

Your fascination with managerial snake oil suggests a disappointing lack of interest on your part in the more central question: who manages and who benefits?

Just out of curiousity, how many companies that use the latest fashionable managerial "strategies" are in bankruptcy?

:cool:

[kelvin]

Quote: from redstar2000 on 5:15 am on June 27, 2003


Your fascination with managerial snake oil suggests a disappointing lack of interest on your part in the more central question: who manages and who benefits?

Just out of curiousity, how many companies that use the latest fashionable managerial "strategies" are in bankruptcy?

:cool:


Who benefits is a larger philisophical question and endlessly debatable.

Snake oil? is not debatable. ISO9000 and Six Sigma/TQM tools are in use every day and around the world. Within the scope of my question regarding quality and productivity, they work. Ask the Japanese. The industrial quality prize is named after Deming, the father of quality. Hands down the Japanese produce the most "zero defect autos" in the world. It was Deming who first started the trend in Japan with the auto industry, then adopted by all Japanese industries.

This is just one case study to show you that the process can work anywhere:
http://www.school-for-champions.com/tqm/se...secretaries.htm (http://www.school-for-champions.com/tqm/secretaries.htm)

[kelvin]

Backrupt companies? I know your not expecting an answer to that question.

ALL companies will eventuall become bankrupt. ALL companies are solvent for a period of time and are eventually done in by competition. There is no such thing as a perputal company. A few come close, but ALL in the end will become bankrupt.